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3 Things I Dislike
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# Not Enough Extensions
Lighthouse, Jira Capture... fine, I get why we won't have Lighthouse in Firefox... but that's a big hit that Firefox doesn't have something similar. Atlassian just seems lazy about getting their extension signed and added to the Mozilla addons page... again, fine... annoying but fine.
Anyone know if replacements for these other tools exist?
* Flix Assist - Chrome Web Store || https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flix-assist/jeeccn...
* WhatFont - Chrome Web Store || https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whatfont/jabopobgc...
* Create Link - Chrome Web Store || https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/create-link/gcmghd... (Can't find any that work off of keyboard shortcut AND allow you to customize the output the same way)
Mind you I have like 30+ extensions in Chrome and many of them are also in Firefox... or there are similar tools in Firefox... but what's there seems to lack polish due to lack of users.
# Video / Battery Life Issue
When I stream a video -- any video or screen share -- my fans kick on, my CPU usage goes way up, and my battery life drops fast. I'll be on a call for an hour, and my battery dies. If I use Chrome, I only take a 30% hit to battery on a 1-hour BlueJeans or Google Hangout call. Look, I'm not deep into why this is... but even watching a YouTube video I notice that my laptop gets hot when I watch it in Firefox, but the fans never kick on when I'm in Chrome. Seems like Firefox has a ways to go on videos.
# Crashes / Hangs
Maybe this is something to do with addons... happy to have that be the case, but several times a week I'll open my computer and it has to restore tabs and just tells me that Firefox crashed. A few times I've been using it and everything just becomes unresponsive... like I can't click on anything, not new tabs, or the file menu... I know Chrome crashes too, but I just don't have quite the same trust Firefox right now. It's annoying to have to re-open 30 tabs, re-sign-in to multiple systems just because of a crash. Happens at least 2-3 times a week; I find myself constantly bookmarking all my open tabs just in case of a crash. I don't want to worry about this.
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5 Things I Like
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# Privacy-focused. Being able to set it so it clears cookies and cache when I quit; a fresh browser is just Apple + Q away! I love being able to toggle on built-in content blocking. These are GREAT! I love that by default I have control over these settings and they aren't hidden or obfuscated.
# Being able to control what the search bar auto-completes. I hate that Chrome won't let you turn off auto-complete, or at least set the sources for auto-complete. And I LOVE that Firefox will.
# Knowing that I don't have to sign in. I went to use a Google Form at work the other day -- mind you it's the same form we have basically set up as an anonymous suggestion box -- and the first thing that came up was, "Please sign in to a Google Account." Google is getting way to pushy with forcing you to sign in. I flat out NEVER want to have to sign in to a browser, and certainly don't want a sign in to a web page to automatically sign me on to a browser.
# I love how Firefox doesn't fuck with URLs. The URL is the URL is the URL. Just like it ought to be. Mind you this isn't a feature I thought I would ever need until Chrome started fucking with URLs. When they dumb it down / pretty it up (however you want to think of it), it just annoys me and makes me feel like I'm not the target audience of their products.
# Patch notes! Edit to add this. I really like the layout, and depth of detail and that they've been so keen on telling me what changed and what's in the release. It's nice they are announcing changes, rather than the Chrome strategy of hoping you won't notice they are killing off privacy bit by bit.